Linking all construction product data
What is Twinbase?
Twinbase is a software service for transferring construction product data between organizations. We are digitalizing the construction industry by creating a new interoperability layer for construction product data.
At Twinbase, we make it easy for construction professionals to find and utilize accurate product information. We gather data from various sources, harmonize, and enrich it to ensure it is always reliable and up-to-date. This data is provided through APIs, enabling it to integrate effectively with existing systems.
By providing accurate product data, we help construction teams work faster, make better decisions, and complete projects more efficiently and sustainably. Our goal is to transform how construction projects are planned and managed by offering easy-to-use digital solutions into every phase of construction.
TwinShare
Automated Product Data Transfer into Any Data Platform
Our solution automates the transfer of product data into any data platform, saving time while making data widely accessible. The data is consistently available via Twinbase and can be delivered to other systems when needed. This ensures uniform data quality and consistency no matter where it’s accessed, improving operational efficiency and accuracy across the board.
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TwinConnect
Access Up-to-Date, High-Quality Data Quickly via API
Our solution delivers accurate and updated construction product data directly to your system through an API, saving valuable time while enhancing data quality. This reduces the time and effort required in your own software development processes, ensuring faster project execution and improved overall efficiency.
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Portal
Explore our platform in action. Visit our portal for a hands-on look at the key functionalities that drive our approach. The portal visualizes Twinbase product catalog which combines data from several sources. All product properties are searchable.
Technology
We organize product data using “Twin Documents,” which describe real-world objects in a human and machine-understandable way. These objects might be physical, like a specific water tap in a building, or abstract, like a type of a water tap that is kept in stock. To make this information easily accessible across different systems and companies, each Twin Document gets a unique, permanent identifier—like a digital fingerprint.
This setup allows for a network of digital twins, similar to how the World Wide Web works with pages linked by URLs. Twin Documents follow Semantic Web standards (like RDF and JSON-LD) and adopt industry-specific standards as needed in each use case, making them universally readable and usable.
Our approach also enables digital product passports—a standardized record for each product that tracks its details, history, and specifications. These digital passports ensure that product data remains accessible and consistent throughout its lifecycle, even if shared between multiple companies or systems.
Benefits include
1. Consistent, Up-to-Date Information:Accurate data available on demand improves coordination across organizations and systems.
2. Improved Data Sharing:Permanent IDs and standardized documents make it simple to share product information across platforms, saving time and reducing misunderstandings.
3. Future-Proof Design:The use of permanent IDs and common standards ensures data stays accessible and relevant, even as technology changes.
4. Lifecycle Management:Twin Documents enable data to travel with the product, simplifying tasks like maintenance, repair, and disposal.
This creates a digital backbone for construction projects, making accurate product data as easy to access and use as browsing the web.
Future of product data
- Digital Product Passports
- Product Data-Based Digital Twins
We are digitalizing the construction industry by creating a new interoperability layer for construction product data. We make the data machine understandable and available so that product data transfer between organizations can be automated efficiently across the whole industry.
Digital Product Passports will fundamentally change the way construction industry processes product data by making the data available, transparent and trackable. Our solutions will enable the construction industry make the most out of them.
We create product data-based digital twins of buildings and construction processes. These machine-understandable digital twins help track the lifecycle of a building, boosting operational efficiency and helping to achieve sustainability goals.
Pilot project with Granlund
In collaboration with Twinbase, Granlund aimed to streamline the process of managing product data within their Granlund Designer software. Previously, designers had to manually search for and enter this data, which was time-consuming and prone to error. As part of the pilot project, Twinbase integrated a new functionality directly into the Designer interface, allowing users to simply click a button to initiate an automated search for product data in Twinbase’s master data sources such as LVI-INFO. The relevant product information is then automatically processed, harmonized, and sent to the Designer, where it is instantly displayed, eliminating the need for manual data entry and improving overall efficiency.
